Our next Trading Card Spotlight features Elizabeth Hunter, who is displayed on card number 333, from the Superstars of 2012 Collection. Elizabeth is also on cards 51 and 345. Elizabeth is most well-known by her title of “Kitty McScratch”. Her claim to fame is the...
Our next Trading Card Spotlight features Jason Newman, who is displayed on card number 2589, from the Superstars of 2016 Collection. Jason is a multiple Ridge Racer world record holder on multiple platforms including the arcade version. His love for the game...
Over the course of writing seven books on video game history, I’ve interviewed hundreds of game developers, many of which have dropped mountains of knowledge on the industry. For me, it’s essentially one of the reasons why I’m here- to share the behind-the-scenes...
During the upside-down world that happened during the COVID pandemic of the last couple of years, the collecting world of video games has evolved tremendously. Several companies have grading services where they evaluate the complete in-box and often sealed video games...
It was May 30, 1871, when Montague Redgrave of Cincinnati, Ohio was issued patent US115357A for his “Improvements in Bagatelles”. His invention was a smaller table top version of what had been a very popular French parlor game in the 1700s. In addition, Redgrave made...
Each year at the Pinball Expo in Wheeling, IL, there is a unique item that draws attention from huge crowds. The Pinball Expo in 2019 had one of those attention grabbers. 16-year-old high school student Luke Horwath brought a full scaled pinball machine. Why is that...